Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… Image Robert Hooke, ‘The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground’, Wellcome Collection Gallery, 25642i, about 1750. Image William Hogarth, A Rake's … was to be found there, not among the inmates but rather among those members of the public who paid for admission to witness the antics of the lunatics. But the most telling form of Bethlem sociability was in its popular image as … vain, pippin-faced little old lady, in a fantastic cap – proud of her foot and ankle; there was the old-young woman, with the dishevelled long light hair, spare figure, and weird gentility; there was the vacantly-laughing girl, requiring …
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